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Canada from Ukraine: The suppression of a shameful history
A few days before Remembrance Day, November 11, 2024, the Government of Canada announced that it will not release that portion of a report produced...
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Latin American leaders divided over Trump’s return to White House
US President Donald Trump's return to power Monday has drawn mixed responses from Latin American leaders ranging from approval to caution. Argentina’s President Javier Milei, El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa have cozied up to Trump, even being...
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Mexico
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday said her country "does not have to bow its head" to the United States, and urged the public "to remain calm" as Donald Trump took over the White House for a second term. "We are a great country, a cultural...
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Taiwan hit by 6.4 magnitude quake, TSMC evacuates some factories
A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck a mountainous, rural area of Taiwan's south on Tuesday near the city of Chiayi, the island's weather administration said, with...
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Just minutes before leaving the presidency, Biden pardons his siblings and their spouses
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned his siblings and their spouses, saying his family had been “subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics.” “Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks...
photo: USAF / Senior Airman Kevin Tanenbaum
Ghana soldiers kill at least 7 people described as illegal gold miners
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Soldiers killed at least seven people at a gold mine in southern Ghana, the West African country’s military said. Ghana’s armed forces said Sunday in a statement on X that around 60 “illegal miners” carrying locally manufactured rifles and other weapons breached the...
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Pope Francis calls Trump’s plans for deportations a ‘disgrace’
Pope Francis criticized the illegal...
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Why Turkey is so influential in post-Assad Syria
Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last month, ending his family’s brutal five-decade rule. NATO member Turkey is now in a position to influence its neighbor’s future diplomatically, economically and militarily. Here are...
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Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu's ally Ben Gvir resigns from govt over Gaza ceasefire
Israeli hardline minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Sunday resigned from the Benjamin Netanyahu government over ceasefire deal with Hamas in Gaza. Israeli National Security Minister and head of Jewish Power party Itamar Ben-Gvir gives a statement to members of the press, ahead of a possible ceasefire...
photo: AP / Ronen Zvulun
Traders say ignore the daily Trump noise, focus on the long term
Wall Street traders know what...
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